Fritz London
Fritz London · Science & Medicine
Physicist known for chemical bonding and London dispersion forces
1900, Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) — 1954, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Germany · France · United States
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Fritz London was a physicist who, with Walter Heitler, gave the first quantum-mechanical account of the covalent chemical bond (1927) and explained the weak intermolecular attraction now called the London dispersion force; he later produced key theories of superconductivity and superfluidity. Born in Breslau to a Jewish family, he was dismissed under Nazi racial laws and emigrated via Britain and France to the United States.
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Physicist known for chemical bonding and London dispersion forces
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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